Man-made Israel [Book Review]

Erasure of Palestinian history has become an obsession.

Masada, 2018. Photograph by Gary Todd, on Flickr.

What do you get when you mix ten decades of biblical studies, an Old Testament, the ideology of Zionism, and a tablespoon of politically motivated archaeology, all mixed in a bowl of historical evidence? Author Keith W. Whitelam undertook this recipe and reports on the results in “The Invention of Ancient Israel: The…